NCS advises officers to draw Retirement Plan to avoid sudden death

The Management of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Friday advised officers about to leave the service to plan well to avoid sudden death. as a result of lack of Retirement Plan.

The Zonal Coordinator, Zone ‘A’, Assistant Comptroller-General Monday Abueh, gave the advice during a three-day interactive session on Retirement Planning by the service in Lagos.

Abueh said that the management of the service in partnership with Pension Fund Administrators (PFA) and Pension Commission (PenCom) had sensitised some officers in the South West zone, after successfully hosting a similar event at the Customs headquarters in Abuja.

He said that before now, there was no sufficient information about the pension scheme.

Abueh said this was the reason why the Comptroller-General of Customs, Retired Col. Hameed Ali, made the enlightenment programme possible to reduce officers’ challenges while accessing the pension fund.

“There are so many questions concerning pension before now, so officers need to be educated when they are about to retire or still in the service.

“The information is important to everybody because a lot of officers faced many challenges as a result of limited information about pension.

“There were a lot of records and all sorts of infractions took place; and in 2014 there was a contributing pension scheme which made things easier and straight forward.

“What you contribute is what you get and government employed the service of PenCom, to educated people and reduce the problem in getting back money after retirement,’’ Abueh said.